Rural health care providers have struggled for years. The Trump administration is pointing to a cutting-edge, if unproven way to save them: artificial intelligence.

Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...

“American science is too valuable to be turned into a political football,” writes David J. Skorton, president of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

A review of the report HHS relied on calls it “a dangerous incursion of politics into science and medicine.”

Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies

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Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...

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Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

Heavy metals, like lead, can build up in the body and cause poisoning or toxicity. For most people, this is unlikely to happen from everyday exposures.

A journalist and author of The Influence of Soros examines the history of Jewish people in America and explores their ever-evolving relationship to the nati...

For most healthy people, no, full-body MRIs aren’t necessary. It’s much more important to work with your provider and discuss your own risks and health goals.

The pursuit of rigorous medical science is not compatible with capitulation to government demands aimed at weaponising and eroding science. On April 14, Edwin R Martin Jr, the Trump-appointed interim ...

A new executive order pits the United States against the rest of the world over the question of who can exploit mineral resources in shared waters.

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NAD+ is heralded by celebrities as the fountain of youth, but there’s no solid evidence to back that up.Though NAD+ shows some early promising benefits in

I recently posted Congressional District-level breakouts of total enrollment in ACA Exchange Qualified Health Plans & Basic Health Plans, Medicaid/CHIP programs as well as Medicare. You can view the m...

He wants us to disbelieve our own eyes and memories. Ukraine’s neighbors have seen it all before.

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Groups addressing sexual violence report not getting expected payments from grants that they depend on to keep running.

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President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order to fight antisemitism, with a focus on campus demonstrations against Israel.